Dirk Adorf (born 10 July 1969 in

Altenkirchen Altenkirchen () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the Altenkirchen (district), district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the ' ...

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) is a German

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. Starting with small cars, he won the

Nürburgring The () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s ...

VLN German Endurance Trophy in 1992, 1996 and 1997.Motorsport.com
This earned him drives in the German

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(STW) during 1995. He would return to the STW in 1999, this time with

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. After three seasons in the 2000cc touring car series, he moved to

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in 2002. His last competition there was in 2003, when he drove two races in V8Star. After the series folded, his team took the big Jaguar-bodied V8Star to the

VLN

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series, and after successfully adopting the car, they won a race in 2003, together with

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. For 2004, he moved to the team Raeder, winning some more races. Later, he decided to enter a

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, but with little success as the car remained unreliable, such as at the 2009

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. The team then acquired a

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-spec

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from Matech, with which Adorf surprisingly set pole for the 24h race, against strong competition.

24 Hours of Zolder

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